Hotstar And Akamai Set Global Streaming Record During VIVO IPL 2018

A record for peak concurrent viewers on Hotstar was
established during the match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight
Riders; CDN powered by Akamai

-Hotstar,
India’s largest premium video streaming platform, leveraged Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world’s largest and most trusted cloud
delivery platform to set a global streaming record on the Akamai platform for
the ongoing VIVO Indian Premier League held in India, for the match between the Chennai Super
Kings (CSK) and the Kolkata Knight
Riders(KKR) on the 10th of April,
2018.

Viewership
for the game peaked at 5.5 million concurrent viewers. This is the largest on
the Akamai platform for any live sporting event in the world and the largest
for any single event online by a broadcaster. This is ahead of the previous
high on the Akamai platform of 4.8 million peak concurrent users, established
by Hotstar during the India and
Pakistan ICC Champions Trophy Final in June 2017[1]. The
concurrent viewership of VIVO IPL on Hotstar exceeded the peak viewership of
4.6 million for the streaming of the inauguration of U.S. President Donald
Trump in January 2017.

The
Vivo IPL experience on Hotstar has been reimagined to be leagues ahead of the
sports experience on any platform in the world, with features like Watch’NPlay,
a game that tests the viewers’ cricket smarts as they watch a match, as well as
VR and social features, that make the experience more immersive than ever
before.

Vivo
IPL, in its eleventh edition this year, started on 7th April
and is a 60 day tournament that will conclude on 27th May. The
tournament is streaming live on Hotstar in six languages, including Tamil,
Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Hindi and English.